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Peel Road formerly Poortown
(1883 - 1951)


Peel Road station was opened as Poortown station in June 1883. The station was situated on the Manx Northern Railway's - St Johns to Ramsey line. In 1885 the station was renamed as Peel Road

The station consisted of a single platform with a simple wooden building which provided staff accommodation and a waiting room

Train services ran to Ramsey in the north and St Johns which lay to the south east. At St Johns, connections could be made with Isle of Man Railway services running between Douglas and Peel

More trains were operated in the summer months and in the summer of 1887, there were nine trains to Ramsey on weekdays which reduced to five in the winter. On Sundays, there were three trains to Ramsey in the Summer and two in the winter. The December 1895 timetable showed five trains in each direction on weekdays and two each way on Sundays. The July 1922 timetable showed ten up and nine down services on weekdays and on Sundays there were three trains in each direction

Being in a somewhat isolated location Peel Road station became an unstaffed halt after 1937 and it was an early closure in June 1951 after which passenger services just passed through the station

The line closed to passenger services on September 6 1968 but goods services in the form of an oil tank train continued until April 1969









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